Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

la liberté d’action qu’il revendique avec un statut d’artiste.

English translation:

the freedom of action which he claims as an artist

Added to glossary by Anthony Lines (X)
Apr 10, 2009 07:55
15 yrs ago
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French term

la liberté d’action qu’il revendique avec un statut d’artiste.

French to English Art/Literary Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) design
C’est là, aux Pays-Bas, que Martijn Sandberg œuvre et profite de l’ouverture graphique de ses pairs pour intervenir dans le paysage avec, de surcroît, la liberté d’action qu’il revendique avec un statut d’artiste.
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Apr 15, 2009 15:23: Anthony Lines (X) Created KOG entry

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the freedom of action which he claims as an artist

or: "the freedom he claims as his artistic right". A too literal translation sounds uncomfortable in English.

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Note added at 6 hrs (2009-04-10 14:08:48 GMT)
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Yes, Sasha, "the freedom of artistic expression" would work as well.
Peer comment(s):

agree Kari Foster
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agree Silvia Brandon-Pérez
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agree margaret caulfield
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agree Helen Shiner
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agree Fiorsam : I like the second suggestion
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "merci"
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the freedom to act which he claims with a status of artist

I do not see what else it should be.
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neutral writeaway : very literal, perhaps too literal. literal rarely works in any case and in Fr-En in particular
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the freedom of expression he claims as an artist

If you look at any of his stuff, as in the link, below, he creates visual messages, many of them referring to social issues, almost revolutionary. For an artist, expression constitutes his form of 'action.'

"The work of Amsterdam based Martijn Sandberg (°1967) constantly explores border areas, such as the tension between text and image, legibility and illegibility, the private and public. His images consist of texts for which he developed his own a typography, so far removed from most fonts that they are barely legible as text, and can only be decoded upon careful inspection. The ‘image’ hides the ‘message’, despite of the fact that these messages are of central importance, not only playing on the tension between image and message itself (‘kill the pics’), but also referring to social issues, such as the ‘Power to the People’ phrase covering the surface of a transformer station in Amsterdam, or the permanent installation ‘We’re only in it for the Money’ installation at the svb Bank, Zaandam."
http://www.shapeshifters.be/lectures/martijn-sandberg/

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